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This Just In: College Will Make You an Atheist

Like for Halloween and Christmas, the sales pitches arrive well before the actual event. Television, radio, newspapers, piles of merchandise in stores you visit, and blogs all announce: Back to School! For some it’s kindergarten, for others, the very first day of college. School is starting soon. And that may mean losing your religion. And no, not the R.E.M. song. Nor, indeed, most of the definitions of the phrase out there—losing your temper, gi…

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‘Culting’: From Waco to Fundamentalist Mormons

…mer deprogrammer who has no credentials in the relevant fields but was involved in the Branch Davidian case, was interviewed on Good Morning America in a segment entitled “Children of the Cult: 15 Years after Waco.” This report explicitly alleged similarities between the Branch Davidians and the YFZ community. The April 28, 2008 issue of People had a cover story on YFZ entitled “Inside the Cult.” An article on YFZ in the May 5, 2008 issue of Time…

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WHO IS JEW RUN FOR PREZDNET?

From yet another person, I’ve just received one of those supposedly curious emails about Barack Obama. But wait, what’s wrong with simply asking questions about our next potential president? Isn’t it about a free and open discourse, that quintessentially American trait? Well, here’s how you test it. When you see “Muslim” replace it with “Jew” or “Christian” (or any number of other affiliations) and ask yourself how you’d feel about receiving an a…

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Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

…is the greatest crime of our time. But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs… It would have aroused the world and the people of Germany… As it is they succumbed anyway in their millions.” To contrast this with the Zionist understanding of “the war against the Jews” and its consequences: some Jews did actively resist the Nazis by rebelling and fighting against th…

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Margaret Cho: God Bless You, F***ing F***ers 

So. Margaret Cho has a blog. If you picture the discussion of religion in the public square, really try to imagine a square, and people gathered around talking, well…what’s happening on Cho’s blog is sort of like a bunch of people hurling…er…manure. But I mean that in a sort of amused way, not in a tut-tut kind of way. It’s just a funny image. Here at RD we are trying to project some kind of earnestness. In the public square we are the ones weari…

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Why Bill Maher Gets a “C” in My Introduction to Religion Class…

…(creed, code, cultus) by means of which people (a community) orient themselves in the world with reference to both ordinary and extraordinary powers, meanings, and values. (Albanese) Religion, I would argue, is a complex adaptive network of myths, symbols, rituals, and concepts that simultaneously figure patterns of feeling, thinking, and acting and disrupt stable structures of meaning and purpose. When understood in that way, religion not only i…

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RDNews: Oct 20, 2008

…mendment 48, click here. The battle over abortion rights in California revolves around parental notification: Proposition 4 would force teenage girls to notify their parents if they were pregnant and wanted an abortion. This is the third go-round for a parental notification initiative in California, having been defeated twice before. “Far from protecting vulnerable teens, Proposition 4 would make it difficult for young women caught in abusive situ…

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Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

…sider their virtual selves as representing some facet of their real-life selves, and see their virtual selves as shaping their real lives in meaningful ways. In this respect, virtual environments produce the possibility of what Polish artist and game theorist Miroslaw Filiciak calls “liquid identity.” One of the problems of virtual identity became apparent last spring in a course I taught entitled “Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality.” I wanted t…

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Santa Claus Will Take You To Hell

The Grinches that comprise the family/membership of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas have a knack for turning stomachs. Whether they’re brandishing signs at gay pride parades condemning gays and lesbians to hell or protesting the funerals of U.S. soldiers, they seem to be spreading rage and distaste wherever they appear. Now, the WBC folks are on the warpath in Washington State against the big guy himself – Santa Claus. Westboro Baptist…

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Creationism Makes Its Mark

…on. The poll, conducted by Michael Berkman, a political scientist at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, and his colleagues, also learned that 16 percent of teachers believe in creationism. While Berkman’s research did not address why so many teachers are creationists, he speculated in an e-mail that biology appeals to even fundamentalist Christians:   In Darwin’s day, most biologists felt that they had a calling to describe God’s wo…

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